A Call for More Good – Ideas that Matter 2013 from Sappi Fine Paper on Vimeo. More than a decade ago Sappi Fine Paper North America— the maker of McCoy, Opus, Somerset and Flo — established the Ideas that Matter grant program to recognize and support designers who use their skills and expertise to solve communications problems for [...]

Compostmodern’s 2013 keynote speaker was Ezio Manzini, Design Strategist, and Founder DESIS Network. Resilience today is a concrete possibility. It appears as open and distributed socio-technical systems and it results from a complex innovation in which the technological side cannot be separated from the social one. The good news is this double trend of technological and social [...]

The Buckminster Fuller Challenge from Buckminster Fuller Institute on Vimeo. The Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI) is seeking transformative solutions to global problems to enter the 2013 Buckminster Fuller Challenge . Named “Socially-Responsible Design’s Highest Award” by Metropolis Magazine, it is the annual global competition recognizing bold, visionary, tangible initiatives that take a comprehensive, integrated approach to radically advance human well being [...]

The Upcycle is the eagerly awaited follow-up to  Cradle to Cradle , one of the most consequential ecological manifestoes of our time. Now, drawing on the lessons gained from 10 years of putting the Cradle to Cradle concept into practice with businesses, governments, and ordinary people, William McDonough and Michael Braungart envision the next step in the solution to our ecological crisis: [...]

By Alissa Walker Since 2008, we’ve been we’ve been hosting GOOD Ideas for Cities events across the country, where local creatives team up with civic leaders to solve real-life urban challenges. The initiative has resulted in dozens of implemented solutions, from a board game that helps house the homeless in L.A., to a neighborhood revitalization project in Dallas, to a network of [...]

Defining Sustainability In Design from IIT Institute of Design on Vimeo. How do designers create sustainable goods? Practicing green design is good, but is that enough? We make stuff, but is this stuff making tomorrow worse? Is it making today better? Mabel Chan offers three ways to be more sustainable makers of stuff and gives you questions to [...]

Design and Social Impact: A cross-sectoral agenda for design education, research and practice chronicles the 2012 Social Impact Design Summit which brought together a diverse group of leading practitioners and educators explored the gaps, challenges, strategies to advance the burgeoning field of socially responsible design. Organized by Cooper-Hewitt, The Lemelson Foundation, and the National Endowment for [...]

World-leading visionary, innovator, designer, and author, Bruce Mau is committed to creative, healthy, ecological and economic abundance. In his presentation, he discusses the the need to make sustainability a norm and his drive to include "the other 99%" in the process. Learn more at http://www.compostmodern.org

John Bielenberg will be a keynote speaker at Compostmodern 2013 in San Francisco, March 22-23, 2013. For more event details and to register, visit compostmodern.org John Bielenberg on how to be wrong and why it matters John Bielenberg is interested in the idea that by thinking wrong, one can generate ideas that could make positive changes in the world. [...]

Ezio Manzini will be a keynote speaker at Compostmodern 2013 in San Francisco, March 22-23, 2013. For more event details and to register, visit compostmodern.org In a small, densely populated, highly connected planet, people's intelligence, sensitivity and creativity are the most abundant resources. these social resources are catalyzing, becoming powerful drivers for sustainable changes. This talk will focus [...]

Arup futurist Chris Luebkeman leads an interactive experience where attendees collaborate to understand sustainability challenges to business and the world.

By Design is an inaugural event at Harvard University that aims to build a platform of innovation by engaging key stakeholders through the creative process. On January 25th and 26th , a speaker series and a design challenge will take place at the newly constructed Harvard Innovation Lab, Harvard Business School, and the Graduate School of Design. xDesign will unite [...]

Lance Hosey, Chief Sustainability Officer with the global architecture leader RTKL, delivers the first day's keynote at SXSW Eco 2012, speaking on beauty, ecology, and design .

Sustainable Brands is an international community of learning and action focused on understanding and leveraging the role of brands in shaping a flourishing future. The Sustainable Brands Conference is ground zero for sustainability, brand and innovation professionals who come together from around the world to be inspired, engaged and equipped to succeed by building the [...]

“Hurricane Sandy reminded us that cities are where climate change crashes into everyday life. But the news isn’t all bad—this remarkable little book shows how the future of the planet depends on building better cities and the kind of new thinking we need to get started. Read Carbon Zero right away, because time is short.” —Bill [...]

Design Indaba Conference 2013 takes place from Wednesday 27 February to Friday 1 March 2013 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. A live Simulcast is hosted at the same time at various venues around Southern Africa. Design Indaba Conference Since 1995, the Design Indaba Conference has invited the world’s top creative minds to address professionals from the [...]